Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape

CVE-2005-2265 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Firefox before 1.0.5, Mozilla before 1.7.9, and Netscape 8.0.2 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation and crash), and possibly execute arbitrary code, by calling InstallVersion.compareTo with an object instead of a string.

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